Bexhill United Football Club has an opportunity to continue its rise up the table with two home games over the coming week.

The Pirates are due to entertain Storrington today (Saturday, kick-off 3pm) and Hailsham Town on Wednesday night (kick-off 7.45pm) in Macron Store Southern Combination League Division One.

Sixth-placed Bexhill are just a point outside the top four after last weekend’s superb 5-1 victory away to Wick and they’ve won their last four matches in all competitions.

Bexhill manager Ryan Light said: “We’ve just come off the back of a terrific month and we’re in confident mood because we’ve won 11 from 15.

“We’re going really well and we’ve got to take care of those two home games. Six points would set up a real humdinger at (third-placed) Lingfield on the 10th (of February).

“We do have to concentrate and focus, and take each game as it comes because if you take your eye off the ball one week against a so-called lesser side, you end up dropping points.

“I said to the players after Saturday’s game ‘today is great, but it only means something if we go and do the job next week against Storrington’.”

Bexhill remain six points behind Lingfield, but only two points cover Wick in fourth and seventh-placed Ringmer.

“It has become very tight now and all of us will drop points; it’s how many you drop,” added Light, whose side is now just one shy of its points tally in the whole of last season. “I’m looking forward to the two home games; we really do need to pick up maximum points.”

Bexhill should be close to full strength, with Nathan Lopez, Liam Foster, Curtis Beale and Ben Cornelius expected to return.

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